I am having problems with my (android) phone. When I saw the post above, I also tried as USB stick (the one above from dmesg above), but it was my live aptosid stick (by mistake). Maybe that is why is not showing in KDE... (It did use to show up before...)

Other sticks and SD cards are showing and mounting fine in KDE.

My phone still won't show. The funny thing is: when I plug it, I get "/dev/sdb", but not sdb1. If I try:

Yes, that works too. (BTW, this is issue is the same in two different computers, a laptop and a desktop, running up to date aptosid.)

Thanks!

Luis

gawl

Post subject:Posted: 24.11.2013, 20:51

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It seems to depend on the type of USB device.
As I said above, for an "ordinary" USB hard drive, the new entry under /dev is auto-created.
But for a flash card (SD card) in a multi-card reader (which is properly listed by lsusb), nothing happens.
For such an SD card, nothing is added to dmesg automatically.

Yes, typing in the command /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdd, as you suggested, shows the following reaction:
The partition table of the SD card is printed, and a new device node /dev/sdd1 is created, moreover several lines of information are added to dmesg. However, still no auto-mount.
And, by the way: If I eject the unmounted SD card, this device node /dev/sdd1 is *not* removed automatically, so, this problem is not only related to the creation, but also to the removal of device nodes.

With an "ordinary" USB hard drive, it is different, the device node (plus dmesg entries) appears automatically. Nevertheless, no auto-mount.

The same behaviour for (data) CDROMs: The device nodes (/dev/sr0 plus symlink /dev/cdrom) always exist, but no auto-mount. After entering a mount command manually, I can access the data, and two new lines are added to dmesg.

All about it, if interested, I keep a Linux user page: see my user www.

I am just a clever user so advanced coding capabilities are minimal - I have with some effort compiled printer drivers, video drivers and Google Earth 7. and got them to run.

Since there are some questions about auto recognition of optical drives I have done some tests and have some findings listed here.

First the USB devices all work and are auto recognized with my machine... no problems here.
I do not have any solid state drives as portable devices so I can't test those. Just USB memory sticks

I do have a 60gig laptop drive and adapted it to USB with a converter and have had no issue at all with that... but it is always plugged in through the booting as it were and just shows and is available.

The optical disc recognition worked flawlessly with the last version of KDE (4.10.xx)
I can find workarounds so this is just an exercise in giving the details to help some if possible.

CD and DVD exhibit same behaviors, without elaboration I can play any DVD.

I mention that as a clue may be hiding in the information on behaviors.

Optical media that I made behave the same. CD and DVD
With the machine running I place the media in the player and close it... time is given to see what happens.
Nothing... until I launch K3b, then any activity with the disc is available, plays in Kaffeine and it is seen in dolphin as well as a "K3b project", not by name of disc.

DVD same story, except a commercial disc is disabled due to famous issues. My DVD's discs that I made are fine.

With the machine off and a disc in the player:
when I turn on the machine and it boots all discs are available after boot up. all CD and DVD's will play and are seen by title in dolphin.

Kaffeine has playability right away (all discs CD- and DVD, commercial or otherwise)... before, when disk was placed in a running machine the disc were available only after K3b 2.02 launched.

Don't know if this helps but this is what I have found with some testing.
I don't use optical data much so this is not a problem for me at this time.

I have an internal blu-ray player as an Optical Drive.

Like I said I am pretty good with finding work-arounds so this is just a report of the state as it is currently.

Everything else is good.

stefutz

Post subject:Posted: 25.11.2013, 09:04

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heve you guys tried installing udisk2 ? it is the new prerequisite for automounting